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Amitabh again seeks names of beneficiaries of change in BCCI transfer rule

The acting secretary of the BCCI, Amitabh Choudhary, has again expressed his misgivings about the eligibility rule changes for domestic tournaments being enforced by the CoA-directed BCCI, midway through the season.

| TNN | Nov 22, 2018, 11:00 IST

BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary (TOI Photo)

MUMBAI: The acting secretary of the BCCI, Amitabh Choudhary, has again expressed his misgivings about the eligibility rule changes for domestic tournaments being enforced by the CoA-directed BCCI, midway through the season. In a strong e-mail (TOI has a copy) to BCCI GM, cricket operations Saba Karim, Chaudhary has sought, for the third time, the names and other details of the beneficiaries of the altered rule.

In a circular in October, Karim had informed the BCCI members that "wards of Government employees on transfer shall be eligible to play as a local player for the State /Association where the government employee has been transferred/posted subject to submission of the parent's transfer order and Aadhar card of the player bearing the new address."

Apart from Chaudhary, former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, who heads the technical committee of the BCCI and the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), too had expressed his displeasure to Karim about changing the eligibility criteria mid-season in domestic cricket last month.

In his e-mail on Wednesday, copied to other office-bearers and Ganguly, Choudhary begins by saying: "Dear Saba, unauthorised and unprecedented that the so called relaxation of rule of eligibility was for wards of government servants on wholly unfounded and unjustified grounds, it is now shocking to learn from media reports that at least one transfer of the only two such government servants was not even a normal transfer."

Apparently, the beneficiaries of the change in eligibility are Pratyush Singh (Tripura) and Mizoram's Rohan Choudhary. It's learnt that Singh's father was "repatriated" to Tripura and, so, he shouldn't have been the beneficiary of the changed rule, which waived off the one-year requirement of having resided in the state.

Like in his previous two e-mails, the BCCI acting secretary has, for the third time, demanded the names and details of the beneficiaries of the change in rule. "In fact, the tiny number of beneficiaries only demonstrates the unjustified and unfounded grounds for altering fundamental rules relating to eligibility which had held good for so long. In light of the above, please let me know the names/other details of the two government servants for whose benefit this unauthorised, unprecedented, mid-season change in rule was executed," Chaudhary has stressed.

The BCCI acting secretary had made a similar request to Karim in his e-mail, sent on November 14, too. "Please have a look at your email dated October 30, 2018, which was fifteen days ago. Was this not enough for you to send the list of beneficiaries of the unprecedented, mid-season, unauthorised rules. I run out of adjectives for this Please send me the list at the earliest," he had said.

Responding to Chaudhary on this issue in an e-mail on October 30, Karim had said that he would find out the list of beneficiaries of this change in rule. "Dear sir, the change of rule is applicable to all states and players across age groups. I shall ascertain the list of beneficiaries and will update you soon. Meanwhile I shall put up your concerns to the COA and will apprise you of the same," Karim had said.

Similarly, on October 30, Chaudhary had told Karim: "With the Ranji Trophy to start day after, most participating teams have either been announced or would be by this evening. I will be grateful to you if you could find out how many benefited (state-wise) from this unauthorised mid-season change of rule."

Chaudhary had first raised this issue of change in eligibility criteria mid-season on October 16, which followed a trail mail between him and Karim.

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